AdvertisementItaly has recorded the highest one-day official coronavirus death toll since the first case was detected in China late last year. Over three weeks, 1,135 people have needed intensive care in Lombardy, the northern region hardest hit. The region has only 800 intensive care beds, according to Giacomo Grasselli, head of the intensive care unit at Milan’s Policlinico hospital. 'It only means that the epidemic has started to slow down and that - a few days later - you will have reached the saturation point of intensive care cases.' Intensive care specialist Mirco Nacoti told the Wall Street Journal: 'Until three weeks ago, we did everything for every patient.

Source: Daily Mail March 18, 2020 18:11 UTC